Word: burden
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Arena yesterday afternoon. The B. A. A. team was in rare form and with a speedy attack penetrated the University team's defence almost at will. The latter played a very poor game, allowing the opposing forwards to get inside on nearly every rush and leaving the burden of the work on the goal-tender. As was the case in the Ottawa game, the University forwards were not together on the attack. Several times one of the centre men carried the puck near the goal by fast skating, but with no one to receive the pass the rush was easily...
These coolies, who perform harder physical labor for longer hours than do most beasts of burden and in addition undergo the worst of privations and hardships, are nevertheless possessed of the greatest cheerfulness. Naturally immobile and entirely devoid of nervous emotion, the race is characterized by the greatest patience, and many centuries of suffering have strengthened it against all external conditions...
...Matthews, Weld, Grays, and Thayer! Fire! That's the burden of my prayer...
This would no doubt seem very strange doctrine to many prospective benefactors of Harvard College today; and it is certain that it would have seemed incredible to the early donors. To look upon a gift under any circumstances as a burden seems at first thought an anomaly. But gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series...
...dates with the particular topic for each date are as follows: November 18, "The Problem and the Method." November 21, "The Idea of the Universal Community." November 25, "The Moral Burden of the Individual." November 27, "The Realm of Grace." December 2, "Time and Guilt." December 5, "Atonement," December 9, "The Christian Doctrine of Life." December 12, "The Modern Mind and the Christian Ideas...